Prof.Dr.H.V.Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Teilchenphysik ohne Beschleuniger (Non Accelerator Particle Physics)

Experimental and theoretical research in the areas of
Double Beta Decay, Dark Matter Searches and Physics beyond the Standard Model

Fourth International Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Model

"BEYOND THE DESERT" '03

Fundamental Experimental and Theoretical Developments in Particle Physics
Accelerator-, Non-Accelerator and Space Approaches
Castle Ringberg, Tegernsee, Germany, 9-14 June 2003

List of speakers - Status 1 May 2003

- SUSY/SUGRA Phenomenology - Cold Dark Matter, g-2 Status

Pran Nath (Boston MA, USA)
"20 Years of SUGRA"
Richard Arnowitt (Texas A&M, USA)
"Dark Matter, Muon g - 2 And Other Accelerator Constraints"

- Phenomenological Implications of Superstrings and Planck Physics

Alon Faraggi (Oxford, UK)
"Superstring Phenomenology"
Emilian Dudas (Orsay, France)
"Extra Dimensions and Low-Energy Planck Scale"
Andreas Ringwald (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
"Production of Mini Black Holes in TeV-Scale Gravity"
Archil Kobakhidze (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland)
"Grand Unified Theories in Higher Dimensions"

- Early Universe and Cosmology -

  • Lepto- and Baryogenesis
  • Dark Matter and Dark Energy
  • Structure Formation
  • Inflationary and Quantum Cosmology
Harald Fritzsch (Munich, Max Planck Inst., Germany)
"Are the Fundamental Constants Really Constant? "
Nikos Mavromatos (King's College London, UK)
"Testing Lorentz and CPT Symmetries"
Maxim Khlopov (Rome University, Italy and COSMION, Moscow, Russia)
"Cosmoparticle Physics - the Challenge to the Millenium"
Jihn E. Kim (Seoul, Korea)
"Axions as Cold Dark Matter Candidate"
Raoul D. Viollier (Cape Town, South Africa)
"Dark Matter and Center of Galaxy"
Dharam V. Ahluwalia (Zacatecas Univ., Dept. of Mathem., Mexico)
"Neutrinos and Spacetime"
Luis Bento (Lisboa, Portugal)
"Leptogenesis in a Prompt Decay Scenario"
Steen Hannestad (Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark)
"Neutrino Astrophysics and Cosmology"
Grant J Mathews (Univ. of Notre Dame, IN, USA)
"Disappearing Dark Matter and Cosmic Quintessence: Cosmology Confronts the Fifth Dimension"
Andreas Eckart (Koeln, Germany)
"The Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of the Milky Way"
Francesco Villante (Ferrara Univ., Italy)
"Cosmological Bounds on Neutrino Oscillations"
Vadim Bednyakov (Dubna, Russia)
"Expectations for Dark Matter from Supersymmetry"
Paolo Salucci (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
"Distribution of Dark Matter in Galaxies"
Margarida Rebelo (CERN and Lisboa, Portugal)
"Leptogenesis, CP Violation and Neutrino Data: What Can You Learn?"
Cliff Peter Burgess (McGill University, Canada)
"Quintessence and the Brane World"
Ram Gopal Vishwakarma (IUCAA, Pune, India)
"Is the Universe Really Accelerating?"
Neves Rui Gomes M.-ga (Univ. of Algarve, Portugal)
"Conformal Bulk Fields, Dark Energy and Brane Dynamics"
Stefano Scopel (Univ. of Torino and INFN)
"Light Relic Neutralinos"

- Underground Physics:
Neutrino Masses and Oscillations -
Status of Solar, and Atmospheric Neutrinos
Status of Double Beta Decay
Dark Matter Search
Supernova Neutrinos
Monopoles, Proton Decay


Kenji Ishihara (ICRR, Tokyo, Japan)
"Latest Results from KAMLAND and Consequences"
Ingmar Bergström (Stockholm, Sweden)
"The Use of Penning Traps in Fundamental Physics"
Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
"First Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - and World Status of the Field"
Rita Bernabei (INFN, Rome, Italy)
"Dark Matter with DAMA-LIBRA"
Antonella Incicchitti (INFN, Rome, Italy)
"The Search for Rare Processes With DAMA/LXe"
Ernest Ma (California, Riverside, USA)
"The Neutrino Mass Matrix - New Developments"
Shigetaka Moriyamay (ICRC, Tokyo, Japan)
"Status and Perspectives of XMASS"
Yoshitaka Kuno (Osaka Univ., Japan)
"Muon Particle Physics and Neutrino Factories"
Guido Drexlin (Karlsruhe, Germany)
"Status of KATRIN - a New Tritium Beta Decay Experiment"
David Cline (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Future Dark Matter Detections from the US Perspective"
Gabriel Chardin (DAPNIA, CEA/Saclay, France)
"Latest Results from the EDELWEISS Dark Matter Search"
Pierre Sikivie (Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, USA)
"Evidence for Caustic Rings of Dark Matter in the Milky Way"
Alessandro Mirizzi (Bari U. & INFN, Bari, Italy)
"Supernova Neutrino Oscillations: an Analytical Approach"
Maurizio Spurio (INFN & Bologna U., Bologna, Italy)
"The ANTARES Project and Final Results of Researches With the MACRO Experiment"
Takashi Kobayashi (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan)
"Indications of Neutrino Oscillation in a 250 km Long-Baseline Experiment"
George Ewan ( Queen's Univ., Ontario, Canada)
"Solar Neutrino Observations at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory"
Sandhya Choubey (Univ. of Southampton, UK)
"Global Analysis of Neutrino Oscillation Data After KAMLAND"
Fulvio Mauri (Pavia, INFN, Italy)
"ICARUS Experiment: a Second Generation Proton Decay Experiment and Neutrino Observatory at the Gran Sasso Laboratory"
Ion Stancu (Univ. of Alabama, USA)
"Status of MiniBooNE and Perspectives"

- Solar Models, Helioseismology

Oliver K. Manuel (Univ. of Missouri, Rolla, MO, USA)
"Structure of Solar Core"
Barbara Ricci (INFN and Univ., Ferrara, Italy)
"Helioseismology and Solar Neutrinos"

- Fundamental Symmetries -

  • CP, T & CPT
  • Lorentz Invariance
  • Violations of Equivalence Principle
Helmut Rauch (Atominstitut der Oesterreichischen Univers., Wien, Austria)
"Application of Neutron Interferometry for Tests of Fundamental Physics Questions"
Zurab Berezhiani (INFN, L'Aquila and GRAN SASSO Lab., Italy)
"Title will be announced"
Peter Herczeg (Los Alamos, USA)
"Single Beta Decay and Physics Beyond Standard Model"
Roland E. Allen (Texas, USA)
"Phenomenology and Cosmology in a Lorentz-Violating Theory"
Irina Dymnikova (Olsztyn, Poland)
"Cosmological Term, Mass and Space-Time Symmetries"
Sverker Fredriksson (Lulea Univ. of Technology, Lulea, Sweden)
"Preon Prophecies by the Standard Model"
Ralf Lehnert (Univ. of Algarve, Faro, Portugal)
"Lorentz-Violating Standard-Model Extension"
Lorenzo Iorio (Univ. di Bari, Italy)
"Is it possible to test directly General Relativity in the Gravitational Field of the Moon?"
Mayeul Arminjon (CNRS, Grenoble, France)
"Gravitational Energy Loss and Binary Pulsars in the Scalar Ether-Theory of Gravitation"

- Cosmological parameters from Cosmic Microwave Background,
Supernovae Ia, and Large Scale Structure

Eiichiro Komatsu (Princeton Univ., USA)
"Determination of Cosmological Parameters from Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations"
Alessandro Melchiorri (Oxford, UK)
"Experimental Status of CMB"
Luigi Guzzo * (INAF, Observ. di Brera, Italy)
"Large-Scale Structure from Galaxy and Cluster Surveys and the DM Problem"
Ulf Danielsson (Uppsala Univ., Sweden)
"Can MAP and Planck Map Planck Physics?"

- Relic and Supernova Neutrinos

Shin'ichiro Ando (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Supernova Relic Neutrinos and Observational Implications for Neutrino Oscillation"
Tom Loredo (Cornell Univ., USA)
"Bayesian analysis of neutrinos observed from supernova SN 1987A"
Irina Krivosheina (MPI fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany and NIRFI, Nignii-Novgorod, Russia)
"SN87A Historical View about Registration of the Neutrino Signal with KAMIOKANDE, BAKSAN and IMB Detectors"

- Gamma ray bursts

Filippo Frontera (Univ. and INFN Ferrara, IASF, CNR Bologna, Italy)
"Observation of Gamma-Ray Bursts With BeppoSAX"
Eckart Lorenz (Muenchen, MPI, Germany)
"Gamma-Ray Astronomy at High Sensitivity - Status and Perspectives"

- Test of General Relativity, Gravitational waves

Peter Aufmuth (MPI für Gravitationsphysik, Hannover, Germany)
"The Search for Gravitational Waves. Status and Perspectives"
Ernst Maria Rasel (Universitaet Hannover, Germany)
"Atom Interferometry in the Laboratory and by Satellites "

- High energy cosmic rays, GKZ effect etc.

Daniele Fargion (INFN, Roma, Italy)
"Neutrino Masses, Z-Shower, and Upward-Horizontal Tau Air-Showers"
Sandor Katz (DESY, Germany)
"Electroweak Instantons as a Solution of the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Puzzle"
TBA ( Germany)
"Search for High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA"
Jan-Arys M. Djilkibaev * (INR, Moscow, Russia)
"The Baikal Experiment - Status and Perspectives"
Johannes Bluemer (Karlsruhe U. & Karlsruhe U., EKP, Germany)
"Status and Perspectives of Auger-Observatory"
Ken'ichi Tsuchiya (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
"Status of an Atmospheric Cherenkov Imaging Camera for the CANGAROO-III Experiment and Perspectives of the Field"

- Antimatter and Higgs Search

TBA * (RWTH, Aachen, Germany)
"Antimatter and Higgs Search by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station - First Results and Perspectives"

- Search for New Physics at Colliders

Michael Hebert (USA)
"Status and Perspectives of MECO, the Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment"
Silvia Costantini (Univ. of Rome and INFN, Rome, Italy)
"Search for R-Rarity Violation at LEP"
Anna Lipniacka (Univ. of Stockholm, Sweden)
"Recent Experimental Results and Perspectives in Minimal SUSY"
Rosy Nicolaidou (CEA-Saclay, France)
"Final Achievements on Higgs Boson Searches at the LEP Collider"
Stefan S"oldner-Rembold (Fermi. Lab., USA)
"Recent D0 Results at Run II"
Raimond Snellings (NIKHEF, Netherlands)
"Physics Status and Goals of Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiments"
DELPHI collab. (TBA)
"Searches for Exotic SUSY in DELPHI and Their Interpretation"
DELPHI collab. (TBA)
"Searches for Exotica in DELPHI"
Andries van der Schaaf * (Zurich Univ., Switzerland)
"K0-->pi0 nu nubar am BNL" *

- Superheavy Elements

Dieter Ackermann (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz and GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
"Achievements and Perspectives in the Search for Superheavy Elements"
Vladimir Utyonkov (Dubna, Russia)
"Superheavy Elements - Status of Research in Dubna"
* to be confirmed


Last updated: 01/05/2003 by I.V. Krivosheina